{"id":3324,"date":"2011-09-30T00:52:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T06:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=3324"},"modified":"2011-09-05T09:59:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T15:59:20","slug":"continue-in-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=3324","title":{"rendered":"Continue in Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cContinue in\u00a0 prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving\u201d\u00a0 (Colossians 4:2).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Prayer is not like a vitamin we take once a day.\u00a0 It is also not to be used only as needed. We must keep an attitude of prayer throughout the day\u2014continuously bathing our hearts in prayer. <em>The Living Bible <\/em>states \u201cDon\u2019t be weary in prayer; keep at it; watch for God\u2019s answers and remember to be thankful when they come.\u201d Devoting time in prayer will strengthen our resolve as well as our hearts.<\/p>\n<p>As we close this week, I hope you have taken time to do a heart check. We need to follow the wooing of the Spirit to determine how often we should set time aside to assess or reassess our heart condition. An old gospel song asks the question, \u201cHow About Your Heart?\u201d\u00a0 How will you answer?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How about your heart, is it right with God?<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s the thing that counts today.<br \/>\nIs it black by sin, is it pure within?<br \/>\nCould you ask Christ in to stay?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sue Winchester<br \/>\nMissouri<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRAY TOGETHER:<\/strong> <em>\u201cLord, examine my heart today. Search its inward parts and crevices. Clean out all hidden impurities and expose wrong attitudes. Then, help me continue in prayer throughout this day. <\/em><em>Amen.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cContinue in\u00a0 prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving\u201d\u00a0 (Colossians 4:2). Prayer is not like a vitamin we take once a day.\u00a0 It is also not to be used only as needed. We must keep an attitude of prayer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=3324\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-devotional"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3330,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions\/3330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}